he stayed with nixon as we all know until the end and then some after nixon, he would go out and visit him, it is very late in the game. nixon, when gerald ford was going to run for president, this man has been lying to me for a long time, there was never any relationship further. >> they much supportive of the president. he began by saying i think i should start over by saying dear dick because i am writing to myself as you will quickly detect. it was a letter he penned on his typewriter to talk about the people surrounding him in the white house and also said you need to come to congress. people need to know their president is listening to them. >> >> he did not -- and -- >> it is a long letter. and nixon knew. >> more than any other president and, how did the decision fits into that. >> i hadçç to read read it. i should actually read my books. it is a book it was the result of i am not in there and others are not in there. i put together a remarkable story which is timely right now. and we put another justice or two on the court. nixon has two seats to fill and the story itel and c

nixon had a democratic congress that was probably -- i wouldn't give mr. nixon that credit. as far as his health care plans i believe he was going to do what obama did as far as i am concerned. >> guest: on nixon's progressivism. on domestic policy what he did is turned it over to his key domestic advisers. just don't get me a arrested. and actually aids. you can say the china initiative was not progress of. and pre nixon conservatives would dare never have done. >> host: what was the connection between hillary rodham and barry goldwater. >> host: >> guest: hillary rodham was a goldwater girl in 1964 and this was one of her first introductions to presidential politics. what i found interesting, i didn't put it in because the copyright returns to bill clinton. bill and hillary clinton became close to barry goldwater in his retirement years. bill clinton and the president, they exchanged communications. hillary visits him in phoenix. bill clinton was one of the last people to see him when he is in the hospital. they liked him and he liked them. when hillary clinton was being a

nixon recognized that. that seemed to close the deal through suddenly now he's not very interested in the eckert. then when he learns that rehnquist they thought was number two and moore had that wrong. he was number one in his class and nixon had been beat up for some of the people he suggested along the way. so, that's -- the was a fascinating story to together how rehnquist did get the nomination. the problem with the book and the end of the book is rehnquist was never visited for the job and that created its own set of problems. >> host: and get in one of reference you or somebody else describes rehnquist as a clown based on his -- >> guest: that's mixing. that is a much earlier situation. after the pentagon papers were released that brought to mix in's mind again that there is so much over classification of documents and government he wanted to create a pretty high level group that would address and tackle the problem declassifying papers. so what he did is selected a small panel, put bill rehnquist in

he, he stayed with nixon, as we all know, right up until the end and then some after nixon went to san clemente, and he would go out and visit him in san clemente trying to see how his temperature was. and it's very late in the game that barry goldwater finally breaks rank with richard nixon because nixon is, is really trying to cause a hard time for jerry ford when ford was going to run for president, and goldwater got disgusted. he said, you know, this man's been lying to me for a long time, and i've had it. and they just broke, and after that there was never any relationship further. >> host: in a letter that he wrote to richard nixon june 20, 1973, still very much supportive of the president. he began by saying, dear mr. president, frankly, i think i should start over by saying dear dick as i'm writing to myself. it was a letter that he penned on his typewriter talking about the people surrounding him in the white house and also said, you need to come to congress. people in congress need to know that their president is listening to them. he also mentions watergate in this letter. c

i have never written about richard nixon%. he has passed to another things, but i've really never looked at nixon and so i'm doing that right now. in one of the things i found recently in the archives archives, not a mr. kohl on a prior trip, the nixon papers are on their way to california. they will be as a more convenient for me. but i found in those final days, both haldeman and ehrlichman submitted rather full applications for pardons. they made their best case in the presentations, and it would be clear after reading ehrlichman in particular, his submission, why he would be extremely better when nixon did not grant him a pardon. because everything, everything ago had done basically for nixon, and the fact that he would not see fit or one of two of the final public servants he had ever known, as he announced when they departed. to not issue a pardon, as george bush would, when capital and bird and some others were involved in things, that occur during his presidency had not taken care of it. i'm sure that he was better for

nixon that credit. as far as his health care plans, i believe he was going to do what obama did today as far as i'm concerned. >> host: okay. >> guest: well, let me, let me just make one comment that onyx son's progressivism. on domestic policy what he did is he turned it over to his key domestic advisers, john ehrlichman in particular, and said, just don't get me ray rested. do what you think is necessary and good politically. so a lot of the progressivism that is tagged to nixon is actually aides. but you can't say that the china initiative was not progressive. that's the sort of thing that pre-nixon conservatives and republicans would dare never have done. >> host: one of the names in "pure goldwater," hillary rodham. what was the connection between hillary rodham and barry gold water, and you also talk about a visit she made in arizona in 1996. >> guest: right. hillary rodham was a goldwater girl when she was growing up in 1964. and she, obviously, this was one of her first introductions to presiden

the nixon papers are on their way to california. they're going to actually be a little bit more convenient for me. but i found in those final days both haldeman and ehrlichman had partners and they made their best case in the presentations. and it would be clear after reading ehrlichman in i can his submission why he would be extremely bitter when nixon did not grant him a pardon. because everything -- everything everyone had been done had been basically for nixon and he would not see fit for one of two of the finest public servants he'd ever known as he announced when they departed, to not issue a issue as george bush would, when bush 1, when cap weinberger and some others were involved in things that occurred in his presidency. had not taken care of it. i'm sure that he was bitter for the rest of his life. he became a very bitter man. i think it took years off of his longevity. he got involved in a lot of this watergate revisionism. wanting to believe it. and i saw a man go downhill pretty quickly. >> host: for three hours during

in fact, as it comes up on the nixon tapes after right to win in start to tell nixon on the seriousness of the problems he later will have conversation saying i don't think dean is right that this is obstruction with justice there is nothing wrong to pay them off they did not want to except because they did not feel. first of all, there was no bad motive per car recently ran into a memo in the prosecutor's office on good intentions some of the people involved would say we had no real criminal intent to do something that broke the law to the contrary we do not know we're breaking the wall. that was widespread in the nixon white house. one of the things, there were mistakes made because there are so many federal crimes, with defrauding the government by misusing agencies it is will understood you don't do that but before then the stocks did not jump into our mind to seven going back to the tapes. >> guest: it does not make them in december of more understandable. >> host: you write about the 18 1/2 minute gap. the famous photograph rose mary woods how did that come about? and then what wa

would turn out to be richard nixon? i want to thank you for all of us for having been john dean. we needed you then, and we need you now. i've enjoyed your insights into the washington scene for now coming up on 40 years. i have a couple quick questions. i understand there's a story that in may of 1970 we went to def con i during the nixon administration, and there's nothing you can google on it. i haven't been able to find it anyway. also, bill cohen who was bill clinton's secretary of defense has also said the same thing about cheney, do you feel that we have missed an opportunity by not holding this last administration's feet to the fire? and finally, what's your take on sarah palin? >> guest: on def con i've heard the same thing, on sarah palin i'm a spectator, i don't know. there are certain nixonian qualities about ms. palin, but, you know, that's still unfolding. the centerpiece of your question was, what was that? you don't remember either. it was the important part i was saving for last. paul u are you doctor?

the personal side of richard nixon what was he like to interact?nke is easy and always pleasant and he had meant they would say how is your pre-to the so wife? i discovered actually wind doing the good rule quist joins and he is a prisoner of the until i heard him during one-on-one with others for accuracy use for example, it would bring the worst out to with mitchell was talking for a long time with more of a piers seeking advice what do you think? but with people like cory price in to me. he does months where he didn't turn out like others when he has different people on the staff. [laughter] >> i laughed out loud nixon's take on with some here are the writers to chase down to put to limit on the sepracor we actually did seriously consider a woman, lilly hero had she not been shot down by the all-male panel of the aba they would have been on the court and later looked at her credentials equally as good if not panera and some regards but when listening to these tapes he would say things like to mitchell, about 70 women and mike advent. thank god b

nixon, that was not in his disposition. i think that he was trying to make the government work better and in a way that is a little bit frightening. for example things like developing during the reagan years, not so sure that is healthy. haven't gone that far in the reorganization. was to make the principal fusion sees not only independent regulatory subject to the president's control and policies. >> host: we will go to victor jarman from ellen tom pennsylvania with john team. go ahead, please. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. you spoke at a university in 2007 on the subject of worse than watergate and broken government. i was asking a question about a four to be innocent. several years later you were recorded as saying the country was about 25% fascist -- >> guest: not fascist. i just said authoritarian. >> caller: why had it on tape you did answer a question in which that word was used. >> guest: yes i will explain that. >> caller: and when you answered the question you explain your talking about authoritarianism

he was still working with nixon very, very late.m -- i've broken rank and he's trying to break me. using all of the -- all of the hatchet tachics. -- tactics. chuck was disappointed that i wouldn't join him in the christian right. and he really did a little proselyting for a little while to try to get me to join with him. and i think he's been disappointed. and on issues today, you know, my writing books like "conservatives without conscience" and those are chuck's politics. he transferred one set of politics to another set of politics. and they happen to be very different from mine. >> host: as always we welcome your phone calls. 202 for those living in the eastern and central time zones. the number is 202-737-0001. and door those of you in the mountain or pacific time zones in our conversation with john dean, 202-737-0002. wayne is joining us from cold springs, florida. go ahead, please. >> caller: yes. i would like to ask mr. dean what was the verdict or outcome of the lawsuit you filed against g. gordon liddy? >> guest: what hap

nixon, that was not in his disposition. i think that he was trying to make the government work better, and in a way that really is a little bit frightening. for example, things developed during the reagan years like the so-called unitary executive theory that brings all the regulatory agencies under the white house. not so sure that's healthy. we hadn't gone that far in this reorganization. it was really to make the principle agencies, not all the independent regulatories subject to the president's control and his policies. >> host: we'll go to victor who's joining us from allentown, pennsylvania, with john dean. go ahead, please. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. you spoke at lehigh university in 2007 on the subject of worse than watergate and broken government. i had the honor of asking you a question about authoritarianism. several years earlier you had been recorded as saying that this country was about 25% fascist. >> guest: no, not fascist, i just said authoritarian. >> caller: well, i understand. well, i have

weekend, john dean is our guest on book tv's in depth, the former white house counsel to president nixon and author of 10 books, including an updated edition of "blind ambition" takes your phone calls, e-mails and tweets, today, live at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv. >>

from left to right, madison richards, samantha and olnoll ad lauren nixon. congratulations, ladies, and think you for being here. guest: thank you. host: tell us about what put the topic of nuclear energy in your head. guest: we like examining issues that are new to us and we did not know much about nuclear energy, just tell everyone expected it to be. we liked examining it closer. host: that being said, samantha noll, also an eighth grader, what did you learn and tell us how you did your research? guest: we went on to nuclear sites and we learned a lot from them, mostly about safety and how the process generally works.

when they put out that book about nixon winning the presidency, and they talk about the making of nixon, the selling of a president and how they had to make it look, what kind of photographs he had to have made of him, all of these things, those were hollywood devices. it didn't have anything to do with politics one of the things about john ford's movie with spencer tracy about washington politics, the fun that is made of the original nixon checkers' speech, you have this guy that is basically a dumb guy sitting with his family and stuff on my couch, saying he is an all- american guy, and he would be a good representative. he does not know anything. but what ford recognized at that point was that entertainment had taken over american politics. it does not mean that politicians in any country where they can be elected will not use as much that they find that works from the world of entertainment in a campaign. but when the campaign begins -- becomes more entertainment and less information about your ideas, then you end up with people like rush limbaugh, glenn beck, sean hannity -- their

wanted to blame nixon. it sounds marxist but economics rules. here's some of the politicians -- right, donny? it is how you do it. >> we talk about this all day on this network. come november, we can talk about health care, whatnot. it's where the jobs and the money are and the elections go. >> let's take a look at politics of these two fellow that is didn't do so well at this. here they are. infidelities. here's spitzer and edwards. let's listen. >> in the past few days, i have begun to atone for my private failings with my wife soda, my children and my entire family. >> in 2006, two years ago, i made a very serious mistake. mistake that i am responsible for and no one else. in 2006, i told elizabeth about the mistake. asked her for her forgiveness. >> oh, this is kind of unpleasant. your thoughts, donny. why do some guys yank themselves and other guys stick -- one thing i liked about spitzer. nothing against him personally. he yanked himself. he didn't stick around and make us put up with the embarrassment. he took it on the chin and walked an

and also look at the anti-, the left hatred of richard nixon.nd the things that were said about nixon and the let's get him by so many people. so i think we're in a danger zone right now that the heat is rising. that there too much hate language going on out there. but i don't want to leap forward and say the last 30, 40 years were a sweeter than this particular moment in time. it's been rough out there. i think in this country. particularly dealing with race and issues of the federal government and these great society program whether they are good or not. it's been a rage debate for a long time it just seems to be crystallizing right now because of the health care passage. >> well, if it has been with us for a long time what does that say about america an its instincts. >> that race is a big issue in this country is one thing. when you can't study the 19th or 20th century without it being front and center. there are some people, and john meacham mentioned the removement but some people can't fathom the fact that a man famed barak hussein obama

he resigned over ford's pardon of richard nixon.before that, he was a newspaper man, reporter and columnist. he was in the motorcade, in fact, when jfk was assassinated in dallas. he covered nixon's trip to china. he was a marine officer in world war ii. he was 87 years old. >>> when we come back here tonight, a name change. ♪ [ female announcer ] nancy decided she can't afford so many bathroom detours when sixty percent off is at stake, so today, she's talking to her doctor about overactive bladder. teri decided she's tired of always stopping to "go," so today, she's talking to her doctor, too. if you have overactive bladder symptoms, today is the day to talk to your doctor and ask about prescription toviaz. one toviaz pill a day significantly reduces sudden urges and accidents over 24 hours, all day and all night. plus, toviaz comes with a simple plan with tips on food and drink choices and training your bladder. if you have certain stomach problems or glaucoma, or cannot empty your bladder, you should not take toviaz. toviaz can

nixon in "the rehnquist choice. "i really enjoyed rereading that because i saw nixon being strong, decisive, i saw him being comedic when he didn't know he was being funny, when he knew he was being funny, i saw him making good decisions, i saw him making bad decisions, it's just a microcosm of his presidency. but there are lots of issues that need to be tucked away, and there's some outstanding, large issues that aren't mysteries, but just large issues that need to be put to rest, and i'm in a unique position to do it, and my publisher knows that. so then i can put, hopefully, watergate on the shelf because i've, this has been my planned avocation for my retirement, i'm having a lot of fun with it. .. and a tossup as to who i would put on the top of the list when i would most enjoyed reading about. >> host: john dean, thank you for spending three hours kuran book tv "in depth." >> guest: thank you for the delightful questions. >> host: this program will be aired at midnight for the viewers on the west coast and reb

they wanted to blame nixon. it sounds marxist but economics rules. >> we talk about this all day on this network. come november, we can talk about health care and whatnot. it's where the jobs and the money are. we know that. >> take a look at the politics of these two fellows that didn't do so well. one yanked himself after this. one didn't do too good at all. infidelities. spitzer and edwards. let's listen. >> in the past few days, i've begun to atone for my private failings with my wife, my children, and my entire family. >> in 2006 two years ago, i made a very serious mistake. a mistake i'm responsible for and no one else in 2006, told elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness. >> this is unpleasant. your thoughts -- why do some guys yank themselves and other guys stick to it. one thing about spitzer -- i get along with him. he yanked himself. he didn't stabd up and make us put up with the embarrassment. he took it on the chin. his wife standing there with such dignity in a terrible situation

c-span: richard nixon? >> guest: richard nixon was the worst of all, the wor -- i think the worst president and -- and i think the worst spinner, that watergate had -- by the way, richard reeves' new book "president nixon" is a phenomenal book. i wish i had -- that book had been out before i wrote this book, because i would have put more examples of nixon spinning in this book. but the whole idea that watergate was a second-rate burglary thought up by other people that he knew nothing about when, in fact, he cooked up the entire operation in the white house and ran the entire ro -- operation out of the white house -- he's -- he's one who really went over the line and -- and lied so much that he finally -- finally got caught. c-span: george bush, the president. >> guest: i think the -- i think the biggest spin about president bush is that he's really running the country. i mean, i think -- i think vice president cheney is -- is doing more to set the direction for the country and to manage the white house and

i don't think palin is nixon, obviously. there's a silent majority that loves her.he speaks to them. >> candy, do you think she has that fire in the belly? >> you know, i'm kind of with -- look, who knows. it's a long time between now and when they declare. i think she's -- somebody when i was at the southern leadership conference, somebody said to me, i think she wants to be a king maker, not the king. she likes to drive the debate. i think she likes to, you know, she's up there in the face of the president. they love that. she's also making bank. she's making lot of money. >> big money. >> i think she's enjoying the role she's got. >> a speaking contract where the details were fished out of a dumpster. who did that, i have no idea. private jets to speaking engagements and bend l straws. ime not sure what that's about. >> john king, do you think she has that desire to be president? >> i can't answer that question unless you send me a bendable straw. look, there were some things about the last campaign she loved. she proved herself a big draw. she brings a big crowd

and that led to the unravel, as you know of the nixon presidency. he was my law professor in harvard and i wrote that book fairly early on out of law school. it was another big project and took 7 years, and it was a lot of fun, that i have to say was easier in a since of one life, you kind of know where you are going from start to finish and this once had so many movable parts, this was scary at first, because it was just such a big project. >> well, that raises the question about why you did it. obviously, this was a topic that was front and center, in the newspapers and on television, for man, many months, if not years. you wanted to go back to it and revisit all of those exciting days? >> well, i never stopped revisiting it in many ways. my book on archibald cox came out right at the monica lewinsky scandal was blowing up in the national media and so i became one of the many talking heads on that subject, at the time. and i was viewed as an expert on special prosecutors because i'd done a lot of writing on that i followed this thing and wrote op-

i have never written about nixon. only in passing. he comes up in as many flavors, remarkable profile of nixon in the rehnquist choice. i saw him being strong and decisive and comedic when he didn't know he was being funny and when he knew he was being funny. i saw him making good decisions and bad decisions. it is a microcosm of his presidency but there are lots of issues that need to be tucked away and there are some outstanding large issues that aren't mysteries but large issues that need to be put to rest and i am in a unique position to do it and my publisher knows that so i can hopefully put watergate on the shelf because this has been my planned application for my retirement. i have a lot of fun with it. a book a year is a little bit much. we enjoy cranking them out, we be my wife giving me the tolerance to let me disappear into my office to crank these things out and it keeps you mentally active. >> host: who in history in treat you the most? >> guest: who in history intrigues me the most? tough question. cote i think i read a

we will have recently met with president sarkozy and president nixon have -- president medvedev, and prime minister netanyahu appeared >>. >> [unintelligible] >> any country can leave any treaty at any time during i am not -- at any time. i am not sure what he is threatening to do. when we announced a change in our missile defense capabilities to ensure that the threats or the potential threat from iran and protecting the security of europe and the united states, that remains our focus on missile defense. when we announced that, the russians held that. so our stance on missile defense has not changed despite the fact that they are now looking at it through a different lens. i believe he is also talking about missile defense capability that is offensive in nature that does not exist. >> will that be in prague? >> if president medvedev, if they discussed missile defense, the president will simply reiterate what he and others have told anybody in the world that our posture on missile defense is to ensure the security of this country, our allies in europe from the growing threat and a po

david pietrusza is the author of 1920 the year of the six presidents and 1960, lbj versus jfk versus nixon the epic campaign that forged the three presidencies. mr. pietrusza served in the board of trustees of the calvin coolidge memorial foundation and serves on the siena college research institute survey on the united states presidents. for more information, visit davidpietrusza.com. here is a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals over the next few months. >>> this is book tv live coverage of the "los angeles times" book festival held on the campus of ucla in the west word area of los angeles. it's the largest public literary festival in the country. now in its 15th year the l.a. times book festival is expected to attract over 130,000 people over the next two days. and book tv will be here for the next two days life covering author panels and bringing offers on the panel for sex. here's the lineup for today. we will kick off with an author kawlija with presidential historian tim naftali the author of several books and serves as the director of the richard nixon library in nearby

he was the counsel to president nixon and is the writer of multiple books.that is sunday, live at noon eastern on "book tv." >> this month, see the winners of our documentary competition, middle and high school students from 40 states. watch the top videos every morning on c-span, at 6:50 eastern, just before "washington journal." at 8:30, during the program, meet the students who made them. for all the winners, visit studentcam.org. >> the american enterprise institute hosts this event. it is about an hour and a half. >> good morning. we appreciate your coming out. i am stan andersen. i am the managing director of the chamber's campaign for free enterprise. we welcome you this morning but to this panel discussion. in our view, while the government can blunt the sharp edges of the recession and help push the economy toward recovery, only the private sector, operating in a free enterprise system, can create the number of jobs we need to be competitive and prosperous. that is why the chamber launched its campaign for free enterprise last october. this campaign

it was in 1970 when president nixon first coined the term "energy independence" and president since then to deliver on the goal. and yet today, america and america's families are still filling their cars with fuel from deserts' that are half a world away. our economies still rides at the highs and lows of the world oil prices and our children are asking, will we still be behind the same old energy policy of the past four years, or is now the time for change? president obama has made nuclear that we are not here to do what is easy. we're here to do what is right. to make the hard choices, to succeed where others have failed by finally cutting america's dependence on foreign oil, building a clean energy economy that is more secure and more prosperous, and protecting our children from the dangers of pollution. since president obama took office, we have made great progress toward this goal. we have made the largest investment in renewable energy in our history and we're fighting to put the united states back on top it with technologies that will shape the next century. we cannot afford to lo

surprisingly, richard nixon reportedly liked the chance to jousting with the press. here he is. >> if you are a lawyer and given the state of the situation and what you do, could you give us some reason why the american people shouldn't believe that that was at least a subtle attempt to bribe the judge in that case and gave at least the appearance of a lack of moral leadership. >> the only part of your statement that perhaps is accurate is a lawyer. [laughter] chris: ronald reagan loved romancing the tv cameras. >> the stock market is going down and some say we will be in a recession perhaps this fall. do you think we are headed for a recession? >> i didn't think anyone would get around to some pleasant subjects. no, i don't think we are. chris: bill clinton welcomed the chance to show his grasp on issues. >> social security will be invested in some way and come back with interest for the government later on. by then, what will have to happen is, when we start running short of money, 20 years or so from now, the government will have to have been on a balanced budget.

for's press secretary for a month, resigning in protest the same day president ford pardoned richard nixon. he was 87 years old. welcome to "washington journal." those are pictures from yesterday of the cherry blossoms. as you can see, lots of tourists and traffic and cherry blossoms here this good friday, april 2, 2010. as mentioned at the top of the show we will talk about the new unemployment figures with greg roberts from market watch. -- greg robb. today's jobs report is expected to show gains. it would be only the second monthly jobs gain seen since december of 2007. president barack obama will talk about the success of his economic stimulus program today during a visit to a north carolina company that has benefited from stimulus creance. the president is flying down about 9:30 a.m. the numbers come out at 8:30 a.m. he may be making a statement from the white house and if so we will take it live. here is another economic story on the front page of "the new york times" this morning. concern is mounting in government and among consumer advocates that the debtors are not always getting

when liberalism stopped looking so inevitable, when voters elected richard nixon, when george wallace got more votes -- beloved felt, experienced -- though left felt a crisis of confidence. they retreated to the academy, hollywood, to foundations, to ngo's, to courts and bureaucracies, the unelected parts of government. one remarkable thing from the time of the 1960's to the present is it has been pushed much more by an elected officials than by elected ones. from billing 1960's decisions on school prayer and obscenity to the 1970's abortion cases, to the 1980's and 1990's actions on affirmative action and voting rights, the most controversial parts have not come from legislation, but from bushes by the courts and bureaucrats administering regulations. in response, ronald reagan called for constitutional amendments on different things. the philosophy of original intent was something that meese helped with. he adopted moral combat pilot because he had to worry about the soviet union, getting the budget under control, and partly because of internal weaknesses in his coalition. libertari

kend did and nixon had the 5:00 shadow that doomed him. it all but killed his candidacy.te in britain was all but a kingmaker for nick clegg. before the debate he was referred to as the other one it was prime minister gordon brown, david cameron, and the other one. but with this role reversal, now it's brown and cameron who have been sidelined what also helped clegg's cause is the fact he doesn't belong to either of the main stay parties in the country. labour or the conservatives, the party of margaret thatcher and david cameron. there is an exhaustion with the labour party, and an apprehe apprehension of david cameron, and here is nick clegg, clean, fresh, representing change. people whether in the uk, the u.s. or elsewhere are looking for a sensible center in politics. someone who will honestly diagnose the country's problems, no ideological purity, practical solutions. that's what people want. ideology is for the extremes, the vast majority in the middle want sensible solutions. so what happens if cleg keeps the momentum up until election day? thanks to the oddities o

. -- >> epa brought in by nixon. most of the media approach this secular religion, worship the earth. we did well in my father's generation with conservation. . you had the isaac walter league. even the media say don't throw those things on the ground keep the water supply clean. all of that worked out fine. now we have environmentalism which is a kind of secular religion. you have to love your mother the earth and worship trees. we had scares on appear peps to the crazy global warming cult of al gore! >> come on! >> hug your tree. >> now environmentalists people who believe in global warming, like myself are called doom and gloom people. guess what they used to be called when they were talking about lead paint and water being polluted, doom and gloom people. crazy tree huggers. it is because of them kids don't have to get lead poisoning from their pain. it is the same -- from their paint. is it is the same group of people. >> co2 creates life. >> what i'm saying is your kind back then were attacking my kind who were

commentator in the atlantic said hey, what do you do if you're in trouble if you're a politician, richard nixon, you blame the media and that's what the catholic church is doing, blame the media for doing its job and reporting on abuse cases that the church should have taken care of a long time ago. 18 years is a long time for the vindication of sinead o'connor, but she's finally gotten it. >> is there a bias to the catholic church. >> judy when you say vindication of sinead o'connor, you mean tearing the picture of the pope in half. >> suggesting there is tremendous abuse in the church not being addressed by the church itself. >> i'll go with the new york daily news, which was a rare, fair-minded voice on this and said fairness for the pope, reminds us that he was not at fault in the wisconsin case. cardinal ratinger was in munich when the case in wisconsin erupted and settled in the '90s, i mean, ratinger was nowhere near authority on these issues until 2001. i think this, the loving detail that the new york times poured into this page after page, exhibit after exhibit, website after website

that's the way most people -- >> pat's rule, the nixon rule in the old days and a darn good rule attack't attack down. attack up. >> right. >> there's the president attacking sarah palin, which is attacking down which gives her a direct shaft of opportunity to go right at him. >> she did it here today and i must say this whole group, really, the whole republican party is attacking up. you know, i think there's a straw poll here and everything. i don't think this crowd is that concerned with picking out a presidential candidate right now because barack obama so dominates the landscape that he is the motivating factor here. he's what is on everybody's mind here. his plans, what they view as his evil intentions. his desire for world domination and socialism of government. >> here's palin, by the way, on republican slogans and i don't think you can settle back into the boring nominee for president after all this excitement. let's listen. >> a lot of common sense conservatives can relay some slogans that the majority of americans like a lot better than that, like repill and replace. and the

this week in john dean as a guest on booktv's in depth, the former white house counsel to president nixonand author of 10 books including an updated edition of line ambition. >> in her book, "enlightened sexism," susan douglas compares images of women in the u.s. culture from the 1980s to the age of reality tv. nicole's books in ann arbor michigan host this 50 minute event. >> i wanted to begin i just talking somewhat informally about wyatt wrote this book and then i'm going to do a brief reading from the introduction. in 1994, i published a book called where the girls are, and it did very well. he was about the mixed messages that they be dumb girls and women got from the mass media and their own love-hate relationship with popular culture. as a result, i did get a lot of speaking engagements at colleges and universities, but pop culture, as we all no, has it pretty short shelf life and especially after the turn-of-the-century and certainly by the middle of the past decade, people were starting to ask me what i am about buffy. or xena, not to mention the bachelor. or all the makeover sho

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he's interviewed by dimitri simes, president of the nixon center and publisher of the national interest. >> host: ambassador, this is an interesting and important book. "superpower illusions." it is also a critical book as far as u.s. foreign policy is concerned at least with the beginning of the clinton administration and then of course the second bush administration. you clearly disagree. was the u.s. foreign policy talk in the spirit that is why i was struck in the last sentence of the book. the last sentence i began in the mood to close to this buyer and in one of encouragement and hope is an nation can face up to its mistakes and correct them it will prove the faith in american shared by ronald reagan and barack obama is not misplaced. why are you more optimistic now? >> guest: i'm still optimistic of those the last year the might since i wrote that have seen some setbacks. but mainly i was impressed by the fact that obama during the campaign and also so far in the administration placed the nuclear issue back in the forefront of our attention. the issue that reagan and gorbachev de

she said to me, i started with nixon and now i was going to end up with bush and that i deserve everything i got. [laughter] and that i was jumping on a sinking ship. i will say this though, in the end, i say that by the time i finished in washington, my mother had a different opinion of george w. bush. but, it is not a good way to start off in wendy was not much happier with me. 's be one of the most interesting things i found in the book and i had not heard a word about this before, was your account of how some top russian officials had gone to some top chinese officials with the suggestion essentially that they start dumping their bombs up probably freddie and fannie at that time. that almost sounds like a bear raid. i thought that was the sort of thing that just the evil guys on wall street did you tell me about that. >> it never happened, but we are very, very concerned about stabilizing fannie and freddie because as warren said, there were 5.4 jillion dollars of securities that were either insured or issued direct we buy these institutions. they were highly leveraged institutions, an

. >> host: he went on not only to be governor but hud's secretary for nixon and read details how he was is saving course of american motors and the gremlin. [laughter] you were not proud to have a gremlin in your driveway but it made her rich and he was very successful. >> guest: very, very successful when he came to american motors the company selected him for some years before as a vice president but the ceo was well-respected and when american motors was formed with the merger of nash george mason anise shortly thereafter passed away and the board elected by father to become the new president of the company. the stock went down too medically when that happened i think it dropped about $5.50 per share and a couple years later trading at over $90 per share. i am proud of good job dad did and could shore up the financial base and get the products out that people wanted that allowed him too obviously save a lot of jobs and create a successful enterprise but i am afraid what he's so championed is gone jeep is around but new and different from when he was running the enterprise. >> host: o

. >> this weekend, john dean is our guest, the former white house counsel to president nixon and author of ten books, takes your phone calls, e-mails, and tweets. today live at noon eastern. >> first lady michelle obama has donated her inaugural gown to the smith sonian museum here. the tradition of putting first lady's clothing on display dates back to 1914. the collection includes at least one item from every history. this is about 25 minutes. >> please welcome our guests. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. welcome. i would like to extend a special welcome to the first lady of the united states, michelle obama, to smitssoneion secretary wayne cluff, to designer jason wue, to all of our board members of the national museum of american history and our chairman john rogers, all of our special guests who are here of. students from huntington high school. welcome to all of you. and thank you, all of you, for the great support you provide to this museum. mrs. obama is, it is an honor to have you and your guests here to join with the museum in a tradition that is now almost a century old.

charlie, archibald cox, of course, was the watergate special prosecutor who stood up to president nixon and demanded the tapes and was fired in the saturday night massacre. a true great constitutional lawyer and very principled person. he had been one of the architects of the independent counsel. this was, as you know, a piece of good government law after watergate to try to fix the problem so that that didn't happen again. so he was one of the staunchest supporters for years and years of the independent counsel law and i finally... he would not talk to reporters, he would not ever say anything that would question another special prosecutor but he told me this had gone so far he that he gave up hope on the statute and thought it should be abolished. >> rose: and he said maybe if ken starr had asked if this was an appropriate use of the independent counsel he might not have done what he did. >> well, exactly. archibald cox in deciding where to go in watergate would sit down with elliot richardson, the attorney general and seal himself off from his own prosecutors to decide what was the b

richard nixon brought church to the white house with sunday services in the east room. >> praise be tood. >> reporter: the president has found a high tech spiritual ritual. he receive as daily devotional on his blackberry. >> the bible tells us to pray without ceasing, so if modern technology can help us do that, i'm certainly all for it. >> reporter: a modern solution to keep the faith. yunji de nies, abc news, washington. >>> easter services at a packed church in baghdadere interrupted today by a series of suicide attacks. three car bombs that appeared to target christians and several embassies. at least 42 people were killed, more than 200 wounded. here's abc's miguel marquez. >> reporter: the moment of one of the explosions caught on camera. the scene on the streets of baghdad, utter chaos. "it was a mini van," he says. "he blew himself up." bystanders instantly turned into victims. no one was spared. she's crying out "a car bomb." this man sprinted, carrying a young girl, injured by the blast. it is a scene all too common here, and iraqis are sick of it. "how can they get through